Blades show of steel for Armed Forces

15 October 2015

Sheffield United will launch a shoebox appeal at Bramall Lane to support the Armed Forces.

The appeal, called 'Shoeboxes for Our Heroes', encourages supporters and the general public to donate a shoebox full of items such as food, men's and women's toiletries, travel games and magazines to the Club, which will in turn be sent out to British troops.

The boxes will be sent to the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, the Army and the RAF as a show of support to British servicemen and women on foreign soil.

People who wish to take part in the appeal should drop their shoeboxes off at the Blades Superstore at the ground.

The appeal itself was set up more than four years ago by ex-Territorial Army serviceman Chris Webster and his wife, Sherian, and the couple still coordinate the appeal today.